Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Karsten König <remur@xxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 8. November 2010, 13:14:15 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> Mandag den 8. november 2010 12:47:44 skrev Henne Vogelsang:
> > On 11/8/10 12:44 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > Regarding mission, I just stumbled upon this:
> > >
> > > The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of
> > > Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux
> > > distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly
> > > manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software
> > > community.
> >
> > Which is a shortened version of the "We are" paragraph from the guiding
> > principles. The guiding principles already contain all the mission
> > statements we need i think. I fail to see why we need something else.
>
> These things say nothing other than that we're a community making a Linux
> distribution. No useful information for anyone.
>
> We really, really, really, really, really need something short and precise
> which tells users and contributors (potential and existing) alike,
> *exactly* what we're trying to do and what makes openSUSE different than
> the gazillion other distros out there.

Short and exact is often conflicting, this isn't math you know? =)


Karsten
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